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Donna Murch, Rutgers University Professor, author of " LIVING FOR THE CITY" - Migration, Education, And The Rise Of The Black Panther Party In Oakland, California.

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 among other things is an extraordinary featof editing and archival research, and takes up a familiar period in American historyfrom a fresh and fascinating angle. In the late 1960s and early '70s Swedish televisionjournalists traveled to the United States with the intention of "showing the country asit really is." Some of the images and interviews they collected have been assembled byGoran Hugo Olsson into a roughly chronological collage that restores a complex human dimension to the racial history of the era. Thefilm begins at a moment when the concept of black power was promoted by Stokely Carmichael, a veteran of the freedom rides earlyin the decade, who, like many young activists, had grown frustrated with the Gandhian, nonviolent philosophy of the Rev. Dr. MartinLuther King Jr. Carmichael, who later moved to Guinea and took the name Kwame Ture, is remembered for the militancy of his viewsand his confrontational, often slashingly witty speeches, but the Swedish cameras captured another side of him. In the most touchingand arresting scene in "Mixture" he interviews his mother, Mabel, gently prodding her to talk about the effects of poverty anddiscrimination on her family. So how much has changed and how has the change taken place. How did we get from the America ofStokely Carmichael to the America of Barack Obama? We will see and hear commentaries from Harry Belafonte, Stokely Carmichael,Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis, Danny Glover, Bobby Seale among others. Sweden, 2011, 100 min.